HOW MANY COLLABORATIONS DOES COMMES DE GARCON DO PER YEAR? HERE'S ANOTHER ONE WITH LOUIS VUITTON

tokyo - honestly, i want to give it all up - all of it - to be rei kawakubo's intern. she is a straight genius. and so is marc jacobs (say what you will about his personal life!). the duo are behind the collaboration between commes des garcon  (rei's brand) and louis vuitton (marc's brand) which has fashionistas in tokyo going crazy.  a pop up store was opened yesterday which features kawakubo designed vuitton bags. the collaboration is in honor of vuitton's 30th anniversary in japan. apparently editors and japanese stars were going nuts for the bags. i don't blame them.  i personally would have jabbed a chick and stolen a credit card for one. the things fash-on will make you do...

NOTE TO MITSUBISHI: YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST STAYED IN YOUR LANE

mitsubishi cell phones: get them while they are still on the market! (but did you even know they were on the market!?) (samstores.com)

japan - you know, it really is all about expanding your brand. but it's also all about knowing what your brand is in the first place. if mitsubishi, famous for producing cars, had paid attention to that the predictable would not have happened: they are pulling out of the japanese mobile phone market. against foreign giants like nokia and samsung, their phones could not hold water. according to media reports, many other japanese companies are losing money in the phone markets in their own country. apparently the demand for foreign phones is higher. mitsubishi follows in the footsteps of sanyo, which announced in january that it would sell it's money-losing phone operation, kyocera.